Spiced Coffee

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     Good Morning...Its such a beautiful morning... It feels like its gonna rain, cool breeze flowing, birds chirping, and most importantly Neil still sleeping... Its feels like a start of a lazy day. Just feels lazy to do any work... Wanna grab a blanket and just keep rolling on the bed.

                Nothing beats it, if someone gets you a nice warm cup of coffee to wake up from slumbers...And what do you have to say about hot cuppa of spiced black coffee.....
Ingredients:
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 stick of cinnamon
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1-2 tsp instant coffee powder
Boil water with cinnamon, star anise and sugar.. let it reduce to 3/4 th the volume.. switch off gas and add coffee granules..
Serve spiced black coffee with biscuits

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